There's plenty of songs that I could have gone for here. This is an easy way in to the challenge, although the challenge is thinking of one that you particularly like or stands out in some way.
I'm going to go for quite a challenging one: 'Red Sector A' by Canadian band Rush.
The vocalist, bassist and keyboard player is Geddy Lee.
His family was imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen and Dachau, and survived to be liberated.
It's worth reading Geddy's autobiography: 'My Effing Life' which goes into a lot more detail on this. You can listen to it if you have Spotify.
Neil Peart, the lyricist describes the writing of the lyrics to the song:
I read a first person account of someone who had survived the whole system of trains and work camps and Bergen-Belsen and all of that (...) through first person accounts from other people who came out at the end of it, always glad to be alive, which again was the essence of grace, grace under pressure is that through all of it, these people never gave up the strong will to survive, through the utmost horror, and total physical privations of all kinds.
...I wanted to take a little bit out of being specific and, and just describe the circumstances and try to look at the way people responded to it, and another really important and to me really moving image that I got from a lot of these accounts was that at the end of it, these people of course had been totally isolated from the rest of the world, from their families, from any news at all, and they, in cases that I read, believed that they were the last people surviving.
What are your ideas for songs with colours in the title?
I've made a Google Form to capture some of your ideas.
I'll leave it up a while and share the results later in the year and update the post as well.
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